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Mexican federal police: Juárez mayor's guards looked like organized crime gunmenMarisela Ortega Lozano / El Paso TimesPosted: 05/05/2011 11:37:29 AM MDTJuarez mayor Hector Murguia argues with Mexican federal... (Photo courtesy Juarez city government)http://www.elpasotimes.com/ci_17999055?source=most_viewed›› Photo gallery: Juarez mayor-police altercationIn response to the confrontation that erupted between Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía and Mexicanfederal police Wednesday afternoon, officials from México's Department of Public Safety said the mayor's bodyguards looked like "organized crime gunmen."The argument between Murguía and federal police officers started around 3 p.m. in Juárez after federal officers allegedly aimed their rifles at the mayor's bodyguards on a city street.According to a federal police official in México, federal officers were patrolling Juárez streets when they came across a "convoy of heavy armed individuals riding in three vehicles and speeding, looking and behaving like organized crime gunmen," the official said in a statement.Those men turned out to be mayor's bodyguards.After asking for back up, the federal officers stopped those civilianson Libramiento and Mutualismo streets, Manuel Gómez Morín neighborhood, the official said in a press release. Until then, the riders of the second vehicle identified themselves verbally as local police officers, but they didn't produce any badge or identification, the official said.Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía got out from one of the vehicles and complained about being pulled over by federal police, and said that he was in charge of the city, the federal police press release said.But Murguía alleges that his bodyguards produced their police badges to federal officers. Still, he said, the federal officers pointed their shotguns at the guards."Those (local police) badges were enough proof of my body guards' identity as a police officers," Murguía said in a written statement released Thursday morning."They (federal officers) were so arrogant," Juárez mayor added.Murguía said he wants to file a complaint against those federal officers.An audio recording of the confrontation between Murguía the federal police was released by the city."Let's be very clear, you don't rule the city and, besides, you can't aim at my bodyguards," Murguía yelled in the recording.The altercation occurred three months after federal police officers allegedly shot and killed one of Murguía's bodyguards who were guarding a perimeter while the mayor met with a church leader.Two federal officers were jailed in connection with that shooting.Marisela Ortega Lozano, mortega@elpasotimes.com; 542-607.The El Paso Times reporter Daniel Borunda contributed with this story.

MEXICO CITY, May 5 .- The financing of the terrorist group Al Qaeda, who was led the recently executed Osama Bin Laden have little or nothing to do with the fundamentals of Islam.

According to U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) connections between the terrorist group, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Mexican cartels were aimed at ensuring a better distribution of cocaine throughout the African continent, says ABC.es.

However, drug trafficking is not the only source of criminal funding of Al Qaeda, it is also related to kidnapping charged in the Sahel region of Africa, for those, they have obtained close to 65 million euros.

Another aspect is Saudi money donated on behalf of the jihadist cause. In a report dated in 2009, quotes the Spanish newspaper, the Pakistani police claimed that each year, organizations "charitable" Saudis contributed to about 15 million dollars to the cause of "jihad."

Some complaints are nothing new. Only five years earlier, in 2006, Stuart Levey, undersecretary for terrorism then the Treasury Department, asserted in a hearing before the U.S. Congress, despite the evidence was clear that Saudi authorities had repeatedly failed- conscious or unconsciously, in pursuit of individual donors who fund Al Qaeda.

Marisela Morales rejects that government protects the Sinaloa cartel leaderCapture of Chapo Guzman, government priority: PGRThe prosecutor said the intelligence institutions are working to locate the kingpin escaped from Puente Grande prison in 2001 and said that "there have been several data" about it. 05/05/2011 • M.P.http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8954129The federal official was yesterday at the official residence of Los Pinos.The federal official was yesterday at the official residence of Los Pinos. Photo: Octavio Hoyos

The Attorney General's Office, Marisela Morales, refused to protect Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán and said his capture is a federal government priority, even if targets are harder to catch because of the way they are hiding.

She said if she knew the whereabouts of the drug dealer who escaped from the prison in Puente Grande, Jalisco, in 2001 could not reveal it, and recalled that its location is the work of the agencies responsible for carrying out intelligence work.

Morales said the federal government's job to capture the leaders of criminal organizations has been successful because it has been possible to detain a large number of them.

When asked about the perception that Guzman Loera has protection from the authorities, she replied: "No, of course not! There are those that are more difficult to catch exactly the way they are hiding, but people have been detained very close, very close to El Chapo.

"It is in this way is also attacking the structure of El Chapo, but all these investigations, of course, are designed to find him, but it is still working and will continue until the goal," said .

Asked about the place that hides the Sinaloa cartel leader, Morales said: "If I knew, of course, could not speak, but have had several book and it is working each of the agencies that have intelligence ( sic), which usually stop at various drug dealers in that they are working, is one of the priorities that exist in the federal government, "he said.

Interviewed in Los Pinos after attending the inauguration of the third Forum on Security and Justice, the head of the PGR recalled that they recently detained a in-law of Joaquin Guzman Loera and some important people in that organization.

She also recalled that the federal government offers a reward for reporting contributions to assist the location of the Sinaloa drug trafficker, "and is working very coordinated" with the federal agencies responsible for security. We "looking for the goal and hopefully that capture" he said.

Marisela Morales insisted that the location of the offender "is a work of several federal government agencies in this type of location of targets."

Justice Coahuila

The prosecutor also referred to the accident at the mine in Coahuila and said that the case will not be another one of impunity, and therefore being investigated to act forcefully against the person responsible."They say things, but we are in the investigation. That's what we'll be able to have the legal truth in that is precisely what is the research, based on having accurate information and objective factors, "she said.

Informed that the preliminary investigation was initiated and is currently collected forensic evidence and statements, so will soon be able to have lines of research, once the first steps.

Asked if the history of the explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine, also in Coahuila, there will be justice, the prosecutor said: "Yes, of course, for they will be working through the law to the fullest extent."

Were paid 1934 MM pesos for rewards

The PGR paid during March 1934 million pesos to the people who gave information to arrest some of the most wanted drug traffickers by the public security forces.

In a request for information made by MILLENNIUM, dependence revealed that from January 2010 to March this year has been allocated 38.3 million pesos to reward people who anonymously disclose information for the apprehension of several offenders.

The document omits names of those arrested, however, provides the list of offenders apprehended during 2010 for whom paid rewards.

The first payment, January 2010, was 3 million pesos for the person who provided information for the arrest of Luis Humberto Rubio Rubio Ubaldo González and González, El Monrroque, linked to the Carrillo Fuentes.

On February 5 made two payments of 666,000 pesos each to the informants who helped capture Oscar Ortiz González, candida, and Angel Cisneros Marin, El Flaco or blue.

October 11 was published in the Official Journal on agreement that offered rewards ranging between 3 and 30 million other criminals. (Mexico • Rafael López.)

KeysCity Attorney Support

• The Attorney General of Justice of Mexico City, Miguel Ángel Mancera, supported the prosecutor's work anti-kidnapping, Oscar Montes de Oca, although the official has a criminal complaint.

• He stated that the prosecutor has the knowledge and skills for employment in the public. Even to enter the PGJDF had to pass examinations of control and confidence in the same PGR.

• "We had very good coordination with both federal and local authorities, I have received many calls of support from both authorities and civil organizations, the fiscal work of Montes de Oca," Mancera said.Mexico • Lorena Lopez